environmental

The Environmental Unit at GCS has been involved in environmental authorisation processes and related work for the last 8 years.  The unit members have a wide range of environmental management skills and have been involved in the application for authorisation for a number of large scale developments and multi-disciplinary projects. 

The aim of the unit is to provide a cost effective and efficient service to our clients, which is tailored to the specific requirements of each project.

The environmental authorisation processes that the unit has been involved in include the following:

• Basic Assessments under the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (NEMA) (Act No 107 of 1998)
• Scoping and Environmental Impact Assessments under NEMA
• Prospecting Right Applications under the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (MPRDA) (Act No 28 of 2002)
• Mining Right Applications under the MPRDA
• Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Management Programmes under the MPRDA
• Amendment of Environmental Management Programmes under the MPRDA
• Mining permits
   

As part of the above processes, the unit members are also responsible for undertaking the statutory public participation processes.  Additional environmental services offered by the GCS Environmental Unit include:

• Compilation of Environmental Management Systems in terms of ISO14000
• Environmental Due Diligence Assessments
• Performance Assessments and Audits in terms of the MPRDA
• Environmental Legal Reviews

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